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3 years ago

What is speed of a particle?

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The speed of a particle is the instantaneous rate at which its distance of travel
is changing.

Over any finite period of time, its speed is:

(distance traveled) / (time to travel the distance).

The direction of travel is irrelevant to a description of speed.

Mashutka [201]3 years ago

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SPEED = total DIST. traveled / total time taken

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